Identification and price tag



April 1930. w. H. SEELEY I 1,756,216

IDENTIFICATION AND PRICE TAG Filed Jun 25, 1927 4 m fig? 3 1 2 a 5 Jy. Jg I Z/ I \/j Jag.

INVENTOR Figures 3. and 4 I views, respectively, of the tag.

atented Apr. 29, 13a

WILLIAM H. SEELEY, 0F TACOMA, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOE T0 BROWN & BAILEY,

0E TACOMA, WASHINGTON, A CORPORATION'OF WASHINGTON IDENTIFICATIONApplication filed June 25,

This invention relates to price indicating and identifying tags, orstickers, for retailed merchandise. More particularly, it relates tostickers, or tags, that are applicable to boxes of candy or the like.

It is the principal object ofthis invention to provide "an identifyingtag that may be applied to a box, or package, or other article and whichhas in connection therewith a detachable'tab bearing a price mark forthe information of both the purchaser and the retailer, and which may bedetached when the box is purchased or at any time which suits thepurchaser.

More specifically stated, the object of this invention resides in theprovision of a sticker comprising an ornamental portion that may beattached to the goods and which bears thereon a trademark or othersymbolwhereby the purchaser may identify the make or character of the goodsbeing purchased and to which a price bearin tab is detachably connectedso that it may e removed without dis- .turbing the identifying-portion.

' In accomplishingthese and other objects of the invention, '1 haveprovided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms ofwhich are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 isa view, showing a box for candy, or the like, to which an identifyingand price indicating tag is attached in accordance with the presentinvention.

Figure 2 is a view of the parts of the sticker, showing the price tabdetached from the identifying portion.

are outside. and inside Referring more in d tail to the drawin s- ANDIPRICE TAG 1927. Serial No. 201,494.

contained in the box to which the sticker is attached; this portion ofthe sticker being provided on its under surface with an adhesivesubstance, such as. glue, whereby. it may be stuck to the box.

The tab 3 has a price mark thereon from which the purchaser, as well asthe retailer, may determine the price at which the goods to which thesticker is attached is to be sold.

It is intended that such stickers be applied to the boxed goods atthe-factory or that they be, distributed to the retailers for them toplace on the boxes. When a box of candy, or

the like, to which a sticker is attached is sold,

the purchaser or the retailer tears off the price mark but the trademarkor identifying mark is left on the box. Such stickers may be -madeinvarious styles and sizes and it is not desired that the claim belimited only to'the particular form in which it has been herein shown;

Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim asnew therein and desireto secure by Letters. Patent, is:

An identification and price bearing tag for merchandise, said tagcomprising an ornamental identification portion provided on its V underside with an adhesive whereby it may be permanently attached to anarticle without impairing its ornamental appearance, and a price bearingportion disconnectably attached to said identification portion and lheidentifying and price tag, in its entirety, is designated at 1 in Figure1, and it comprises an identifying portion: 2 and a price tab 3 that isseparated from the part 2 by a line of perforations 4 which permits thetab to be easily detached by tearing along the line of perforations. Thepart 2 may be of I various ornamental shapes, circular, oblon or square,and may bearthereon atrademar or other symbol whereby a purchaser mayadapted when removed therefrom to leave the s5 Washington this 30th

